Comments on: Motherboard Woes - MSI RS482M-IL (ATI Radeon Xpress 200) with Linux

By: J.

J. — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:06:30 +0000

I am not sure whether this will work. I have problem with displaying grahic under Mandrake 9.2 and was searching around in the internet. Here are something I found on the search. Hope it will help.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8-01-x86.x86_64.run

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html

By: Matt Sale

Matt Sale — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:01:15 +0000

I’ve been running Fedora 6 on an ECS 482-M for several months, upgraded from FC-5. Both worked fine. I have not experienced the slow HD performance (33-66MB/s depending on IDE drive). However, I am experiencing occasional (all-too frequent) “white-screen-of-death” lockups. Typically, the screen goes all white, and the machine is completely unresponsive. Is anyone else experiencing this phenomenon?

By: Takodz

Takodz — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:45:02 +0000

Hi,

I just installed debian sarge (32 bits) on ECS Elite Group RS482-M and I have a lot of error with USB

“ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ”.

Does anyone can tell how configure BIOS for resolve this problem?

Thanks a lot.

Takodz

By: Pianohacker

Pianohacker — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:05:09 +0000

Everything works fine on Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10. Will try TV-out, report back.

By: J

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:09:58 +0000

I just installed SuSE 10.1 (64 bit) on that board without a hitch. Works like a charm. Hd transfer rate is at 65MB/s. SuSE rocks (as always)

By: Slackman

Slackman — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:14:47 +0000

I’ve just finished resolving primary issues with my ECS Elite Group RS482-M (ATI Xpress 200) mobo. Some hints were picked from various places in the web, including this blog.
Hope this can be useful for other folks:

http://www.izmiran.ru/~osin/slackware/ati

By: henca

henca — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:00:28 +0000

I have a few more experiences from that card which I posted to comp.os.linux.hardware

In a message I wrote this:

> I’m thinking about building a small computer and the MSI RS482M4-ILD seems
> nice on paper as it is m-ATX and has built in graphics with DVI out.
> However, all computers that I have built before has had intel motherboard
> chipsets so this Radeon motherboard chipset is unfamiliar to me. A few
> questions:

I ended up buing this board anyway and now I am able to answer my own
questions as I have installed Slackware 10.2 on the box.

> Will IDE dma work with kernel 2.4.31?

No, DMA didn’t work with the PATA HD or the PATA DVD -RW with 2.4.31.

> Does it work with a 2.6 kernel?

Yes, DMA did work both for HD and DVD with 2.6.13 which was included as
test26.s in the testing directory with Slackware.

> Is DRI supported by the opensource drivers in X.org? According to
> http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/radeon.4.html it seems to work, but
> I have seen other pages saying that it is untested. Will the DVI port work
> with the opensource drivers? At least with earlier versions of X.org I
> have had problems to get the DVI port to work with Radeon 9250 cards.

Maybe DRI does work with a more up to date X.org. I don’t know. Slackware
10.2 include X.org 6.8.2 and that ATI driver does not work at all. Instead
I am now using the vesa driver. One day I might upgrade X.org…

> Does the built in sound work fine with ALSA?

No, so far I have not been able to get any sounds from this machine. The
alsa modules are loaded, alsamixer works and all channels are unmuted
except the PCM channel which does not seem possible to mute. However I
have not yet been able to get any sounds from the built in sound card.

> I suppose that the built in USB and firewire ports work?

I can confirm that the USB ports work, but I haven’t tried firewire. I can
only see that firewire modules get loaded.

It was rather problematic to get the machine working. At first the network
and the DVD refused to work, probably because they couldn’t agree if an
IRQ was shared and if it should be flank or level trigged. “pci=noacpi”
cured this problem. The network chipset really seems unable to share IRQ
with anything else. When the only com-port was set to COM1: (ttyS0) with
IRQ 4 the network which shared that interrupt died again. The only com
port had to be configured as COM2: (ttyS1).

At the moment, I would not recomend this card to anyone else. Maybe it
will work better in a few years when drivers have matured. But by then the
card will probably no longer be on the market.

regards Henrik

By: BlogPandora » Kubuntu 6.06 y mother MSI RS482M-IL

BlogPandora » Kubuntu 6.06 y mother MSI RS482M-IL — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:06:41 +0000

[…] Y tengo que decir que la experiencia fue positiva, no he tenido ninguno de los problemas que se mencionan en algunos blogs, excepto el tema de ACPI al que aún no le he dedicado mucho tiempo. […]

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:21:57 +0000

Well, just to let you know. I finally bought thie mobo and installed Ubuntu on it. Till now It works fine with no clock problems, video is working great, also sound.
I have not test yet ACPI, but will try soon.

Until now I have not experienced the problems everyone here describes, I hope it stays like this

By: mushr00m

mushr00m — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:01:16 +0000

gar!,

I want to smash this motherboard into little bits. I’ve always been a nvidia man and I remember why.

I am greeted with a hard system lock when I try to switch consoles or log out of the current X session.

I’m going to try the x64 kernel.

Kernal: 2.6.15-23-386
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000
MB: RS482M-IL